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DoggioWars

by lioilsources · score 31.4 · license: MIT

DoggioWars

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Aerial dogfight over floating voxel islands — you ARE the fighter plane.

custom_mapgen mini-game pve transport

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DoggioWars ✈️

A standalone Luanti game — no Minetest Game required.

You ARE the fighter plane. An aerial dogfight arena set among floating voxel islands — fly, shoot, pull aerobatic tricks and race a golden rabbit through carved tunnels.

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The world

An endless sky filled with floating islands in 12 biomes, generated deterministically from the world seed:

verdant · jungle · savanna · glacial · desert · atoll · crystal · volcanic · ashen · barren · mycelial · swamp

Expect volcanoes with lava overflowing from the crater, waterfalls and rivers on large green islands, lagoon atolls, giant mushrooms, glowing crystal spires and icicled glacier mesas. Islands are destructible — your shots knock pieces off, and the debris tumbles into the void.

You spawn on a home island (random biome per world) and take off immediately — there is no walking in DoggioWars.

Controls

Two control modes, toggled with /mode. Submarine is the default — it hovers, so you can stop and look around while you learn the world; /mode fighter switches to the aeroplane. The mode is per player and survives respawn.

Submarine (default)

5DoF hover. Release the controls and the ship eases to a stop.

Input Action
Mouse / right stick heading + pitch — the hull chases the crosshair
W / S (left stick ↑↓) thrust forward / back along the hull axis
A / D (left stick ←→) strafe sideways (heading unchanged)
Shift / Space (X / ○) rise / sink vertically
Left mouse button, E (R2) shoot

Tricks, boost and drift are disabled in submarine mode — those buttons have a new meaning here.

Fighter (/mode fighter)

Mouse-flight: the plane chases your crosshair. Steer by looking.

Input Action
Mouse / right stick aim — the plane follows the crosshair
W / S (left stick ↑↓) throttle / brake (speed is persistent)
A / D (left stick ←→) bank — rolls into the turn and comes round slowly
Left mouse button, E (R2) shoot
Right mouse button (L2) boost
Space / Shift (X / ○) nose up / down
double-tap A or D Barrel roll (brief invulnerability)
hold Space ≥ 0.8 s Looping
double-tap S Immelmann turn
S + A/D airbrake drift turn

Two ways to turn, and they feel different. Looking with the mouse or the right stick points the nose straight at where you want to go. The left stick banks instead: the plane rolls onto a wing and comes round about three times slower. Luanti cannot roll the horizon, so attitude is read off a level indicator under the minimap: a line that banks with the aircraft and rides above a fixed mark when climbing, below it when descending. Sitting flat on the mark means level flight. The numeric bank and vertical speed stay in the HUD as well.

Steep dives build overspeed, climbing bleeds it off. Skimming close to terrain charges your boost meter, and tricks score points.

Gamepad: native Luanti joystick support (Xbox 360, PS4 DualShock) — see GAMEPAD.md for setup, the button map and troubleshooting (in Czech).

Chat commands

Command Effect
/mode toggle submarine ↔ fighter (/mode sub, /mode fighter)
/island fly to the nearest island — it ends up in front of you
/island <biome> same, for the nearest island of a biome (ice, volcano, sand, green, … or full names)
/goto <x> <z> or /goto <x> <y> <z> fly to coordinates
/home return to the home island at the origin
/race greyhound race — chase the golden rabbit (/race stop to cancel)
/radar toggle the island radar (minimap)
/gp live gamepad diagnostics overlay
/respawn_fighter respawn your plane

Installation

Install from ContentDB (Luanti main menu → Content → Games), or clone into your games folder:

git clone https://github.com/lioilsources/DoggioWars.git \
    ~/.minetest/games/doggiowars_game

The folder must be named doggiowars_game. Luanti takes the game id from the folder name but strips a _game suffix — the same reason minetest_game has the id minetest — so the game id stays doggiowars and worlds keep working. Then create a world and pick DoggioWars as the game. Requires Luanti 5.12+ and nothing else — no Minetest Game, no other mods.

Where the games folder lives:

  • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/minetest/games/
  • Windows: %APPDATA%\Minetest\games\
  • Linux: ~/.minetest/games/

The gamepad is enabled by default (the game ships its own minetest.conf defaults). PS4/PS5 DualShock owners still need to pick the joystick type once — see GAMEPAD.md.

How the game is put together

game.conf            game metadata; forces the singlenode mapgen
minetest.conf        default settings for this game (gamepad on, view range)
menu/                icon, header and background for the main menu
mods/doggiowars/     all the gameplay — mapgen, flight, weapons, races
mods/dw_nodes/       stand-ins for the minetest_game nodes the terrain uses
tools/               procedural texture generator for dw_nodes

dw_nodes is what makes the game standalone. The terrain used to be built from Minetest Game's blocks — default:stone, flowers:rose and so on. Bundling Minetest Game would have meant shipping other people's assets (LGPL 2.1 code, CC BY-SA 3.0 media), so dw_nodes provides all ~70 of them instead, in its own dw_nodes: namespace, with textures drawn by tools/gen_textures.py. Every asset in the repository stays original work.

The old names still resolve: dw_nodes registers an alias for each one, so worlds saved by earlier versions load unchanged. New code should use dw_nodes: — aliases do not appear in registered_nodes.

License

  • Code and documentation: MIT
  • Media (textures/, models/, screenshot): CC BY-SA 4.0

All media is original work — no third-party asset packs are bundled. See LICENSE for details.